My AI Touch Book arrived yesterday. So far we’ve found that the magnets are incredibly strong and very difficult to take apart. The 3 magnets came stuck to each other, so we’ll need to figure out some way to separate them. The batteries are charging now. They say to give it 6-10 hours to charge….Continue Reading…

For those who are searching for specifics found in fake-looking emails, like myself :) I’m selling my Asus Eee PC 1000H 10″ Netbook 160 GB Windows XP Green – $280 (USC). Here’s a reply to the listing from someone claiming to be “Angela Baker”: Hi, I am willing to pay your asking price and $120 for…Continue Reading…

Error The Google App Engine Runtime could not be extracted (perhaps you are running the Launcher from the dmg? If so, drag copy the Launcher to your local disk first.) GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app may not work correctly. I got hit by this error today, as I was trying to install Google App Engine on my iMac. I…Continue Reading…

Boston University has one of the stranger 404 File Not Found error pages I’ve seen in a while. At the time of this writing, this is a broken link: http://www.bu.edu/sed/about/directions/index.html Here’s an excerpt of what that page says: We cannot find the page you want at: http://www.bu.edu/sed/about/directions/index.html 1. BACK UP In the address bar of…Continue Reading…

Hi, I’m replying to your post on craigslist for your listed item,is it still up for sale? Let me know. Thanks This legitimate-looking email came from Sara Jason <skittysara2 [at] gmail [dot] com>. Generic enough — nothing to be concerned about. I replied: “Yes.” Her response: Good day , I’m much interested in buying it,…Continue Reading…

I bought a used iMac on eBay. 24″, 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo, and about $300 less than what it would cost to buy the same thing refurbished from Apple. This one also is covered by AppleCare. It came to me with 10.5.2 Leopard installed, so I erased the disk and am installing 10.6 Snow…Continue Reading…